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Creating Powerful and Effective Presentations with PowerPoint
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This course provides financial professionals with practical guidance on creating clear, persuasive, and visually strong business presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Participants examine how structured storytelling, purposeful slide design, and message alignment improve communication in both internal and client‑facing scenarios. The session highlights the realities of today’s business communication landscape, where data-heavy content, hybrid audiences, and expectations for visual clarity demand more thoughtful presentation development. Attendees also review updated Microsoft 365 capabilities that streamline presentation creation, including AI-supported design tools and new productivity features that help professionals research, refine, and organize content more efficiently. By combining foundational PowerPoint functions with current best practices in narrative development, the course equips learners to produce presentations that enhance understanding, support decision-making, and elevate organizational communication.
Learning objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss the characteristics of effective business presentations using clear narrative structure.
- List and demonstrate current PowerPoint features supporting organized, visually strong communication.
- Explain how updated master slide tools improve consistency across business presentations.
- Compare and contrast presentation needs across internal, client, and hybrid delivery settings.
- Review and analyze how message flow and slide sequencing support audience comprehension.
Major topics
Story-driven frameworks for clear organizational presentations
Core PowerPoint tools for structured business communication
Microsoft 365 and AI features improving presentation efficiency
Who this is for
This course serves CPAs and financial professionals seeking stronger PowerPoint communication skills.
Prerequisites: None
Course details
- Recommended CPE credit
- 3 — Specialized Knowledge
- Field of study
- Specialized Knowledge
- Program level
- Basic
- Delivery method
- Group Internet Based
- Prerequisites
- None
- Advance preparation
- None
- Length
- 2h 30m
- Course number
- 24c00974
- Provider
- CPE Today
CPE Today (Devmatics, LLC) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors (Sponsor ID 167619). State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website, nasbaregistry.org. For information about our refund, complaint, and program cancellation policies, see Company Policies or contact [email protected].
Your instructor
Stephen Yoss
Speaker & Author · CPE Today · ★ 4.7 instructor rating
Stephen M. Yoss, Jr., CPA, MS, is a certified public accountant, partner and CEO of Devmatics, LLC, a continuing education instructor for financial professionals, a and a licensed pyrotechnician. While his interests and skills are varied, they all share a common thread—his love for and skill in finding technology-based solutions. In 2017, Stephen and Alex White formed Devmatics, LLC, a company focused on helping...
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